Type-writing machine.



H. S, MCCORIVIAGKa TYPE WRITING MAUHINE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 13, 1908.

Patented Mar. 2, 1909;

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.By l1/s fi/forney W/fhesses UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

HARRY S. MCOORMAOK, OF NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK,- ASSIGNOR TO UNDERWOOD TYPE- WRITER COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

TYPE-WRITING- MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 2, 1909.

Application filed November 13, 1908. I Seria1N0. 462,381.

To all'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY S. MoCon- MACK, a citizen of the United States, residing in New Rochelle, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type-Whiting Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in the sheet-adjusting plat e disclosed in United States Patent No. 829,989, granted to me September 4,1906.

The object of the invention is to improve the construction of the plate with a view to making it practicable to register thereby a sheet whose leading edge is cut v out for too great a part of the width of the sheet to per- ;mit it. to be gaged readily by means of the device shown in said patent.

I provide-upon the sheet-adjusting plate,

whose cut-out is too short to be registered by said gage.

Other features after appear.

in the accompanying drawin gs, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a platen and platen frame of an Underwood front strike writing and advantages will hereinmachine, showing my improvements applied thereto, andv showing a cut-out sheet registered upon the adjusting or registering plate. Fig. 2 is a perspective "view of the registering plate, showing in dotted l nes 'how a sheet provided with a shorter cut-out than at Fig. 1, may be brought into register and also showing how a sheet A having a wide or uneu t leading edge may be registered. Figl firis a diagram illustrating some different lengths of eut outs in the'leading edges of the sheets. F ig.-4 is a sectional side elevation illustrating a sheet carried around the platen and registered on the registering plate.

, A platen 1, upon Whose frontside strike types 2, is'journaled by an axle 3 in the ends I 4 of a platen frame. Said ends are connected by a rod 5 running along the platen. K registering plate 6 is secured by screws 7 u on a pair of brackets 8, keyed to said rod 5 by keys 9 and adjustable along the, platen, The screws 7 pass through slots 10 which permit adjustment of the plate forwardly and baekwardly, as usual. whose leading edge 12 is cut away at 13 for the major portion of the width of thesheet, is laid upon the plate, and its cut-away edge 13 is set against a gage 14 extending from right to left along the main registeringplate 6 at the rear portion thereof. The right hand edge of the sheet is set against a gage 15 formed upon the right hand end of the. main plate. The gage 14 is in the form of a strip or plate secured upon the rear portion of the main plate 6. At one end it may A sheet 11,

abut against the side gage 15, while the other terminates short of the main plate 6, to permit the uncut portion 12 of the-leading edge of the sheet to project back past the end of said gage or strip 14, as at Fig. 1. The front edge of the gage 14 is located between the front and rear edges of the main plate 6, and preferably so far front that'the= edge 12 does not quite touch a ledge 16 which is turned up along the back edge of the main plate 6; the strip 14 being set back against said led gel A sheet 17 having in its leading edge a cut away 18 shorter than the gage strip 14, may be adjusted in the manner seen at Fig. 2; the uncut portion 19 of its leading edge being set back against the gage 16 and resting partly upon the top of the gage strip 14; the gage or ledge 16 rising above said strip, as shown. The extreme right hand portion of the cut out 18 may be set back against a small gage 20 placed upon the top ofthestri 14 at its right hand end and fitted into tie corner formed by the ledges 16 and 15. In adjust ing the sheet 17, the plate 20mayheemployed as a minor adjusting plate, the operator pressing down the leading edge 19 of the sheet upon the said minor plate 14, and at the same time sli i'ping the right hand corner of the sheet back against the gage 20 and carrying the sheet to the right until itsside edge sets against the gage 15. The gage 20 is made small enough to fit in the smallest cut outs made in sheets, as at 21, Fig. 3; the leading edge 22 of this sheet 23 being set back against the gage 16 and beingof sufficient length to ena'b e the sheet to be regis teredlproperly without reference to the gage 20. t w ll thus be seen that there are three gages20, 14 and 16,the gages20 and 14beingof graduated lengths and superposed one upon the other and both upon the'main registertion with a platen, of a sheet-registering plate mounted upon the delivery side thereof and rovided at one end portion with a gage for t e side edge of the sheet and having also a gage'for the cut-out leading edge of a sheet,

the last-mentioned gage arranged at the same end of the platens saidside gage and terminatlng short ofthe other end of the plate.

2. In a ty ,ewriting machine, the combination'with ap aten, of a sheet-registering plate mounted u on'the delivery side thereof andhaving ale ge erected along its rear edge and provided at one end portion with a gage for the side edge of the sheet, and a gage secured upon said plate for the cut-out leading edge ofa sheet, the last-mentioned gage placed forward of said ledge and terminating short of said plate at the end thereof opposite said side gage. I

3. In a typewriting machine, the combination with a platen, of a main sheet-register ing plate mounted upon the delivery side thereof and having a main gage erected along its rear edge, and a minor supplementalplate upon the rear ortion ofsaid main plate, said ledge rising a ove said supplemental plate,

and the front edge of the supplemental plate' serving as a gage for the cut-out leading edge of a sheet.

4. 'In a typewriting machine, the combination with a platen, of a main sheet-registering fplate mounted. upon the deliveryside thereo and having a main gage erected along its rear edge, and a minor supplemental plate upon the rear portion of said main plate,

plemental 'k cut-out lea ing edge of a sheet; said suppleme tal gage terminating between the ends of t e main plate.

5. In a typewriting machine, nation with a platen, ofa main sheet-registersupplemental gage at one end of the said Inmor supplemental gage and rising above the latter to cooperate with the main gage to register a sheet having a relatively shortv cut-out.

6. In a typewriting machine, the combination with a platen, of a main sheet'registering fplate-mounted upon the delivery side thereo and having a main gage erected along its rear edge, a minor supplemental plate upon the rear portion of said main plate, said ledge rising above said supplemental plate, and the front edge of the supplemental plate serving as a gage for the cut-outleading edge of the sheet, a second supplemental gage at one end of the said minor su plemental gage and rising above the iatter to cooperate with the main gage to register a sheet havinga relatively short cut-out, and

a gage upon said main plate for the side edge of the sheet.

7. In a typewriting machine, thepombination with a platen, of a sheet-reg1stering plate mounted upon the delivery side thereof and provided at its rear edge with an upturned ledge, a minor supplemental sheet adjusting late secured upon the rear portion of saig plate at one end thereof and ,of less height than said ledge, the front edge of said minor plate serving as a gage for the leading edge of acut-out sheet, a second gage secured upon one end of said minor plate to cooperate with said ledge to register a sheethaving a cut-out too short to register against said minor plate, and a gage-for the side edge of the sheet.

8. In a typewriting machine, the eombi nation with a-platenand a platen frame, of a registering plate lying along the top of the platen and provided with a series of gages to square the paper at the leading end.

9. In a typewriting machine, the combination with a platen, of a registering plate lying along the top of the platen and having gages at its-'rear and side. edges to square the i leading end and side edges of the paper, and

said ledge rising above said supple- 5 'mentalplate, and the front edge of the sup- 1 late serving as a gage for the a series of supplemental gages for the lead ing end of the paper. I

10-. In a typewriting machine, means for registering the paper at its leading end,

comprising a main plate extending along'the top of the platen and having a gage at its 11,?

, rear edge, and a series of supplemental gages the combii of graduated lengths parallel with said ga e,

;but slightly forward thereof, said supp e ing plate mounted upon the delivery side thereof and having a main gage erecteda along its rear edge, a minor supplemental -plate upon the rear portion of said main above said supplebut less than the entire mental gages in theform of superposed strips extending along the top of ength thereof.

HARRY s. MoCORMACK.

Witnesses:

JOHN O. SEIFERT, K. FRANKFORT.

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